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(No Model.) r 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. G. A. ELLIS. GOIN GONTROLLED VENDING DEVICE.

Patented Sept. 30, 1890.

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Patented Sept. 30, 1890.

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GEORGE A. ELLlS, OF' DETROIT, MICHIGAN, 'ASSIGNOR TO THE AUTOMATIC CIGAR SELLER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

COIN-CONTROLLED VENDING DEvoE.

' "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 4373584, dated September 30,1890.

Application filed February 25, 1890. Serial No. 34:1,722. (Ne model.)

To all whom it may conccrn:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. ELLIS, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ooin-Controlled Vending Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in an improvement in Coin-controlled vending devices hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Figures 1, 2, and 3 are side elevations of the actuating mechanisn in diiferentpositions with the box in vertical section. Fig. 4: is a detail of the connecting mechanism.

A represents the frame of the box, of any suitable size, shape, or material, for the use to which it is to be put.

A' represents a plate fastened to one side of the box, as shown in the figures, and projecting within the box to carry the Operating mechanism.

The particular arrangement of slide for deliverin g the article to be sold is omitted in the drawings,because that usually varies with the size and shape of the article, and because there are many ways of connecting the de livery apparatus proper with its aetuating mechanism. i

C (indicated indotted lines in Fig. 1) indicates the coin-chute, the lower end of which terminates so as to deliver the coin into the funnel-shaped receiver C whose lower end is open.

Gr represents a shaft pivoted in plate A', on which is fastened an upwardly-extending arm g'. Shaft G extends through plate A', and is connected on the other side of said plate with the delivery apparatus indicated by lever g. (Shown in dotted lines in Figl.)

D represents a lever, which is pivoted to the upper end of arm g', and carries on one endacounter-weight d, sufficient to normally depress that arm of lever D to which it is connected, but so proportioned as to be raised by the weight ot' a coin resting on the other and longer arm of lever D.

d represents a keeper Secured on plate A' .and extending over the long arm of lever D to guide the lever in its vibrations and limit 50 the upward movement of the long arm of the lever. This may be omitted and its ,office performed by a keeper 01 which is Secured to plate A'.

d' represents a pin projecting from the side of the long arm of lever D and lying directly under the coin-receiver 0 when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1.

61 represents a hook formedin thelong arm of lever D near' its end.

9 represents-a shoulder for-med in the lower -6o part of arm g', and F represents a pawl piv oted to plate A', so that its upper end will engage With shoulder 9 when the ,arm g' is swung to the right, as shown in Fig. 3. p

F' represents a light spring, which holds 65 the pawl F up to its work.

B' represents a bar sliding in an ape'ture in the box and in a keeper Secured to plate A', having its outer end provided with a knob B for the hand of the operator.

b' represents a hook formed in the upper side of bar B', adapted to engage with hook CP on lever D.

B represents a spring, which draws the bar B' toward the left, .as shown in the figures, and which restores said bar to its normal position after it has been drawn out.

The bar B' is made of such length that when it is pushed into the box its'inner end holds the pawl F out of engagement with the So shoulder 9 on arm g', and the spring 13 is made stronger than the spring F' for this purose.

p The operation of my invention is as fol lows: When the apparatus is ready to receive a coin, the parts lie in the position shown in Fig. 1, in which it will be noticed that the bar B is entirely disconnected from all other parts of the apparatus and may be operated freely without affecting any of the delivery go parts of the machine. When a coin of the proper size and weight is dropped into the chute, it falls into the receiver C and comes in contact with pin d', thereby depressing the long end of the lever D and causing the hook d on said lever to lie in front of the hook b' on the bar B'. When the bar B' is now drawn out, the hooks d and b' lock together, thus looking the lever to bar B', which carries with it the leverD, and this swings the arin g' and Ioo `rotates .the shaft Gr, 'which is connected with 9 on arm g', and thus holds the shaft G against return to its normal position until the bar B' is forced in far enough to 'push thepawl F away from the shoulder 9 As soon as the bar B' is moved toward the hooks (1 b' disengages weight d and immediately restores the lever D and 'the parts connected therewith to their normal position, thus disa connecting the delivery apparatus entirely from the bar B' This obviatesthe defeat in certain machines of this character by which a dishonest person is enabled to obtain more than he has paid for through Operating the actuating-.bar through less than its whole range of movement, for it is evident that until the bar B' is fully returned home the machine will not be set to deliver another article, and that a slight inwardmotion of bar B' disengages it from lever D;

What l claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Ina com-controlled vendingapparatus, the combinati-on, with a v-brating counterweighted lever connected 'with the delivery apparatus,having a projection' in the path of the `descending coin, of an actating-bar normally disconnected from said level', and a pawl for looking the delivery-actuating mechanism lying in the path of the actuating-bar, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a Coin-controlled vending apparatus, a counterweighted lever D, connected with the delivery apparatus, having on its long arm a projecting pin lying across the path of the descending coin, and a hook, a movable bar B', having thereon a hook b', and a pawl F, lying in the'path of the bar Bsubst-antially as shown and described.

3. In a Coin-controlled Vending apparatus, a movable bar having thereon .a hook, a piv oted Vibrating lever normally free from engagement with said bar and having thereon a hook to engage with the hook inthe bar, and a projection in ;the line of the coin-chute whereby the actuating mechanism is connected `bythe weight of the con. j

4. In a Coin-controlled Vending :apparatus the combination of a leverpvoted to .the delivery apparatus having its short arin connterweighted and its long arm extending-nzder the .coin-chute and provided with a ihook, with a movable bar having thereon a hoo k nor-` mally free from engagement with .the leverhook and en gaged :therewith when the hooked part of said lever is depressed by a coi n, suhsta-ntially as shown and described.

GEORGE A. ELLIS. VVitnesses:

i 'BETHUNE DUFFIELD,

GERTRUDE ANDERON. 

